How clutter cost me money. Or why I’m an idiot.
See this?
It’s the new countertop in my scrapbooking studio. Can you SEE the counter top? Yeah, that would be the point of the story. As I showed before, I like to organize things in my work space. Usually. But sometimes life gets away from me and it doesn’t get done. My husband and I have been working on installing some beautiful (FREE!) cabinets and countertops in my studio and now it’s just a big mess.
So here’s what happened. With some cash my hubby gave me for Christmas, I ordered some pre-paid digital prints from Clark Color. I order photos from them a lot and as I’ve also said before we take lots of photos so I knew it would come in handy for later when I was broke but still wanted to get photos developed. I uploaded all 62 Christmas photos. I thought I had also had them printed, but couldn’t find them anywhere. I looked high and low and drove myself nuts last weekend. Then I came to the conclusion that I had not, in fact, actually ordered them. So I ordered them again with my pre-paid prints. That’s 62 prints at 11 cents each for a total of $6.82. Yesterday, underneath the crap in this photo, I found (you guessed it) the envelope full of Christmas photos that I had already ordered. Yes, I’m officially a dumbass.
Now, $6.82 may not sound like a lot of money to you, but to me it is! That’s 62 prints I could have used for DIFFERENT photos, ya know? I’m just so disgusted I could kick my own ass. Know what I mean?
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Same predicament here! been wanting to do some serious scrapping, but when I think about the mess I have to battle with, I lose the creative “spark”
Too bad about the extra prints. The good news is, you can probably use them for a certain paper art technique where you cut the focal point of picture (say, a kid playing) through then paste it again on the exact spot on the other whole (same)picture using a foam double-adhesive tape to make it look like “popping-out” off the picture. I do not recall the “technique” name.
Corinna hon, just use those pics to make a mini album for an inlaw or relative or something.. Or put them in picture frames… You can find a use for them!!!!
omg i do that all the time! I now make a folder on my desktop titled “need to develop” and fill it with pics that i only have on my pc…when i develop them and make a cd of them, i delete them from the folder and start over! lol
Clutter has certainly cost me money too – and energy. When you’re covering up your workable space, you’re losing out on productivity and progress. With Feng Shui, you can learn where clutter can hurt you the most.
For more information about the damaging effects of clutter, go to http://www.ArtOfPlacement.com